Best Window Managers for Linux

wbar is a quick launch bar recommended for fluxbox or Window Maker. wbars goal is speed.This is eye candy developed in C++. The motivation is eye-candy which runs as fast as possible but still it probably made faster.Tested succesfully on Fluxbox,...

Enlightenment is a window manager compatible with the X Window System (X11) and many Linux operating systems. Some will prefer to call it a desktop environment. While Enlightenment is one of those lightweight desktop environments for Linux/UNIX...

Openbox project is a standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager.Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop easier to manage. This is because the approach to its development was the opposite of what seems to be the...

Metacity is a lightweight and open source window manager initially written by Havoc Pennington from Red Hat.Metacity is implemented with the GTK+ toolkit, and so integrates well with the GNOME desktop environment.What is new in this release:Fix...

Subtle application is a another tiling window manager with a slightly different approach to place the windows, in contrast to other tiling window managers like Wmii or Ion. The placement in subtle is done by tiling windows which arrange every child-window...

XPde is a complete desktop environment for Linux on x86. It tries to make easier for Windows XP users to use a Linux box.Nothing more, no clipboard compatibility between Gtk and Qt applications, no emulation of Windows applications, no unification on the...

Scrotwm is a small, but dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It  tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to...

As its name implies, alloywm is a quite exquisite, aesthetic little window manager for X11. The premise of this window manager is not to be over-bloated like better known window managers such as KDE, and to keep the interface out of a user's way. Also,...

Window Maker is an open source X11 window manager, originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep desktop environment. Window Maker includes compatibility options for popular desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE, and it also...

dvtm (dynamic virtual terminal manager) is an open source, freely distributed and cross-platform software project that has been designed from the offset to act as window manager for Linux and UNIX-like operating systems. By default it uses 4 layouts.Lets...